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He Evening Times pULL LEASED VVifll: or THB ASSOCIATED PRESS and UNITED PRESS Erry Dar Eicept Sunday JHE WEATHER Fair and not quite so cold tonight; Wednesday, generally fair and warmer; Thursday, probably showers. LARGEST HOME DELIVERED PAID CIRCULATION IN THE VALLEY. VOL, XLVI NO. 182 OVER 5,000 DELIVERIES EVERY DAY SAYRE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1938 REPRESENTED EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD PRICE THREE CENTS (faiui ami JV BBfiFT 7 II ear mm i Radio Broadcast Which Scared A Nation Seeks to Make Pact Effective LACK OF FUNDS MM FND DIES (1111 HEARING PLAN DPPISED IT CHAIRMAN OF (I1IIEE I'l Mill I I IU I 1 I ARE VICTIMS OPENING DM Orson Welles, youthful guiding light of the "Mercury Theatre of the Air," Is pictured, arms upraised, with his company directing a rehearsal of one of his plays. The Federal Communications Commission has launched an inquiry into Welles' broadcast of a dramatization of H.

G. Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds." The broadcast created widespread panic among radio listeners throughout the country. II JEW TALK "FRAME-UP" CHARGE HURLED BY LAWYER FOR ACCUSED SPY RADO IS SUBJECT OF PA! SLASH Possibility of Railroad Strike Diminishes as U. S. Aid Is Indicated SEEK NEW PLAN Management-Labor Joint Program for Rehabilitation to Be Sought WASHINGTON, Nov.

1 (Impossibilities of a nationwide railroad strike diminished today as it became apparent that rail executives would abandon their demands for a 15 per cent wage cut in return for administration support of broad rail aid legislation. Management leaders rushed plans for settling finally the controversy with their 960,000 workers. Presidents of the 139 class I railroads were summoned to a special meeting in Chicago at 10 a. m. Friday to decide whether to abandon the pay cut fight.

It was indicated unofficially that they would do so in order that work may begin at once on a joint management-labor program for rehabilitation which President Roosevelt's administration will support in the next congitess. These considerations were said to be pushing the rail executives toward a cancellation of the pay cut notice, effective Dec. 1: Oi 1. The adverse report of Mr. Roosevelt's emergency fact-finding board which held the wage reduction proposal unjustified.

2. The threat of rail labor unions to stage a national strike if the cut is made effective. 3. Mr. Roosevelt's offer to sup port constructive rail legislative proposals in the next congress.

H. A. Enochs, chairman of the carriers' joint conference committee, which conducted the wage negotiations on behalf of all the railroads, indicated that the pay proposal would be shelved when he declared that "a railway strike is so far, far away that there is no reason to get worried about 'it." It was understood that Mr. Roosevelt's informal railroad committee of three management and three labor representatives will meet again as soon as the wage reduction notice is withdrawn. The committee's first attempt to draft a program struck a snag on the pay cut controversy.

Members of this committee are Ernest E. Norris, Southern Railroad presodent; M. W. Clement, Pennsylvania Railroad president; Carl R. Gray, Union Pacific vice chairman; George M.

Harrison, (Continued on Page 5, Column 4) PROPOSAL LIKELY WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (AP) The supreme court may decide whether the Roosevelt administration will ask congress to submit to the states a new child labor amendment. The court has before it an appeal from a Kentucky court decision that the constitutional amendment pending since 1924 is. dead-because moiO than one-fourth of the states have rejected it. The case aros from the fact that the Kentucky legislature rejected the amendment in 1926, but reconsidered and ratified it in January, 1937.

The Kentucky court of appeals called the reconsideration illegal. Twenty-eight states have ratified the amendment, which would give congress the right to regulate labor of persons under 18. If the supreme court holds that the amendment is not dead, eight more states Oust give their approval in order make it effective. Should the supreme court agree that the amendment no longer is pending, the administration would have a choice of standing on the provisions of the present wage-hour act, or reeking to strengthen these standards by additional legislation, or of asking congress to submit to the states a new DEMAND NEW CHILD Chairman of Un-American Ac tivities Probe Committee Is Not Hopeful of Getting New Appropriation WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (AP) Chairman Dies (D-Tex) said to day the house committee on un- American activities may have to end its hearings soon because its $25,000 expense fund is running low.

Since President Roosevelt and members of his administration have taken some verbal digs at the committee, Dies was none too hopeful of getting more cash after congress meets in January. The $25,000 would have gone farther, the chairman indicated in a radio address last night, had government departments supplied lawyers, investigators, stenographers and clerks In accordance with the house resolution ordering the investigation. He said, however, that appeals to the justice and labor departments, the WPA, and finally to the president had brought no results. In fact, he added, Secretary Perkins and secretary of interior Ickes joined "certain radical writers" in a campaign "to discredit the committee by ridicule and misrepresentation." When the secretary of the senate civil liberties committee offered aid in obtaining departmental personnel, Dies asserted, it was refused for fear of "sabotage." By arrangement of the Democratic National Committee, Paul I Y. Anderson, Washington corres-! pondent of the St.

Louis Star-j Times, followed Dies on the air. Anderson said he had seen some "slipshod" and "shockingly un fair" congressional investigations but declared none had approached the Dies committee's hearings in either of those respects. ALBANY, N. Nov. 1 (AP) Erwin C.

Cronk, Binghamton, N. Press reporter, has been excused from testifying before an Albany county grand jury in the investigation of the escape of three convicted O'Connell kidnapers. District Attorney John T. De-laney said last night he would not call Cronk before the jury Wednesday as he had planned. He said he had obtained the information he sought and did "not need Cronlt." Last week Cronk told Delaney he would not reveal the source of his information that Clarence L.

Chamberlain, Broome county Republican chairman, was to be called in the investigation. He conferred with Delaney for sev eral hours. The jury is investigating the escape from the Onondaga county jail last November of John Oley, Percy Geary and Harold Crowley, convicted kidnapers of John J. O'Conneil, nephew of Albany's Democratic leaderci They were recaptured within 48 hours. STRIKE IN RETAIL STORES IS SETTLED SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.

1 (A P) Ratification of a "basis of set- tlement" by both employers and unions early today ended San I Francisco's 56-day strike against! 35 leading retail stores Striking A.F. of union clerks ratified the agreement as the climax of a msss meeting, 1069 to 1014. Then Milton Marks, attorney and spokesman for the stores, announced the operators unanimously had approved the terms. Marks said employers and union officials would meet this afternoon to "execute a contract." Terms of the accord which was reached Saturday through efforts of Mayor Angelo Rossi's mediation committee were not disclosed. TREASURY BALANCE WASHINGTON.

Nov. 1 (UP) cm-. Ul usance uct. zy was REPORTER NEED 1 FACE ERA 1 I Chamberlain Will Ask Com-! mons to Approve Early Validating of Accord; Cheers, Jeers Greet Announcement LONDON, Nov. 1 (AP) Prime Minister Chamberlain announced in the house of commons today that he intended to bring the Anglo-Italian accord of April 16 into force "as soon as possible." He said he would offer a motion for debate tomorrow to the effect that "this house welcomes the intention' of His Majesty's government to bring the Anglo-Italian agreement into force." The piime minister spoke to the house as it assembled for a four-day session expected to be devoted largely to debate on the government's rearmament, civilian defense and foreign policies.

The Anglo-Italian pact, signed at Rome the day before Easter, has been held in abeyance because of failure to achieve a "settlement" in connection with the Spanish civil war. The Rome accord was designed to provide a comprehensive settlement of all conflict of British and Italian interests in the Mediterranean, Africa, the Near East and Spain. It provided for British recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia and for complete Italian withdrawal from Spain after the civil war and Italy's assurances that she had no territorial or political aims in Spain. Cheers from the prime minister's supporters and cries of "Never!" from the opposition greeted his terse announcement. Chamberlain refused to be drawn into discussion today of his reasons for deciding to make the accord effective, but it was believed the decision was based on Premier Mussolini's recent with drawal of 10,000 Italian troops from Spain.

"Settlement of the Spanish question" was made a prerequisite to enforcement of the treaty when it was signed. Shortly after Chamberlain's announcement Clement R. Attlee, leader of the Labor opposition, opened a debate on the Munich accord of Sept. 29 by declaring that the resultant frontiers of Czecho slovakia "were even worse than those laid down in the Godesberg plan." He referred to Adolf Hitler's demands presented to Chamberlain at Godesberg on the Rhine Sept. 22.

The prime minister, beset by anxious questions on both civilian and military defense, promised a full statement on the government's defense plans eary in the new session of parliament which will begin Nov. 8. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1 (UP) A negro WPA worker was held in county jail today in connection with the beating of a WPA foreman during an argument which reportedly arose when the foreman reprimanded the worker for eating his lunch when he should have been working. The negro, Emmett Thomas, 21, was arrested in Blawnox on a description furnished police by oth- project workers at Harmarville, where Thomas was alleged to have beaten the foreman, Carl Bierau, 36, of Bakerstown.

According to reports, Bierau asked Thomas "When are you going to work?" When he saw the negro eating an orange at 10 a.m. yesterday. An argument arose and Thomas knocked the foreman to the ground. Other workers took Bierau to the hospital. BODY IDENTIFIED GLENMONT, N.

Nov. 1 (AP) Coroner Ernest A. Hein said today that the body of a woman recovered from the Hudson river here has been identified as that of Miss Mary C. Murphy, 35, missing since October 19 from her Schenectady home. Identification, the coroner said, was made by the woman's brother, Edward J.

Murphjk Schenectady. BOLD WPA MAN FOR BEAT! FOREMAN is for to into Minority Member of Quiz Body "Requests" Officials Be Called DISPUTE FOLLOWS Accusations Fly at Hearing ot House Committee of Investigation HARRISBURG, Nov. 1 (UP) Rep. David R. Perry, Blair, Republican minority leader of the legislative committee investigating graft charges against Gov.

George H. Earle and 13 other Democrats, requested today that the accused be called to testify. "In fairness and decency we should at least ask these officials to come here and testify," Perry said as the house group opened its ninth week of public hearings on the corruption charges. They are the only ones who can give first-hand testimony on whether a conspiracy existed." Perry insisted that further testimony on the quality of materials used in the state finance building here would be "merely cumulative" and would not of it self prove a conspiracy between the governor and the contractor. Matthew H.

McCloskey, Philadelphia, who holds the general contract on the building; Earle, president of the authority who admitted borrowing $26,500 from McCloskey, and Commonwealth Secretary David L. Lawrence, Democratic State Committee chairman, were the accused officials Perry said should be called to testify. Perry pointed out that Earle convened the legislature in special session July 25 to "provide a forum where the accused officials could be publicly heard," rather than a grand jury inquiry where proceedings are secret. As a result the projected Dauphin county grand jury investigation of the charges has not got under way and the accused officials have not been called before the legislative committee. Chairman Herbert B.

Cohen, York, house Democratic majority committee chairman, interrupted Perry to observe that "it is highly improper for a member of this committee to make analysis of this testimony before it is completed. The chairman went on to say (Continued on Page 5, Column 6) 0. S. IS WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UP) United States government monetary experts kept in close touch with British and French officials today as the French government sought completion of a financial-recovery program.

The cabinet of Premier Edouard Daladier was reported to have postponed final action on monetary points of the program awaiting advice from this govern ment. Authoritative sources here said late last night, however, that no proposals have yet been received for discussion. A group of cabinet ministers, the Paris report said, considers the monetary issue of prime importance in re-stabilizing the French financial structure. Authoritative sources said this group has proposed measures similar to the action of this country in 1933 in prohibitive private gold hoarding. CLAIM OFFENSIVE OF REBELS HALTED HENDAYE, France (at the Spanish frontier) Nov.

1 (AP) Government dispatches said today the insurgent offensive on the Ebro front in northeastern Spain had been fought to a standstill. Although the insurgents report the drive was continuing, Bar celona government dispatches in-' Sunday morning. WATCHING FRENCH FI1C Scores Are Wounded as Mass Invasion of Hunting Grounds Starts, Despite Warnings of Caution HARRISBURG, Nov. 1 (UP) Mass invasion of Pennsylvania's hunting ground for opening of the popular small game season brought death to six men and gunshot wounds to scores despite repeated appeals by state officials for the extra precaution required for safety in fields for forests teeming with nearly 600,000 armed hunters. The dead: Paul Matsick, Nesquehon-ing, killed trying to release the guard of his gun.

Harry Miller, 34, Cairnbrook, near Somerset, killed by the ac cidental discharge of a companion's gun. Robert Hoffman, 34, Meadville, fell dead of a heart attack, while hunting in Crawford county. Harry McCommon, 65, York died in a hospital after collapsing in the field with a weakened heart. Coover A. Neidhamer, 48, Wormleysburg, died of a heart attack near Mt.

Joy, Lancaster county. Lorenz Tyschen, 16, died in S. Vincent's hospital, Erie, of a gunshot wound in the' abdo men, suffered yesterday afternoon as he swung his shotgun at his dogs in a woods near his home. Injuries included: G. Robert Borsy, Bethlehem, minor wound left arm from stray shot while working on a highway.

David H. Breckville, Lancaster. fractured left leg in tripping over nis gun. Joseph Caltabiano, Philadelphia; William Challender, Darby; Charles Ralph, Minersville; Joseph Clark, McKeesport: Sergeant Frank Doheny, Jenkintown police omcer; Willicm Foley, Rosempnt; George Arthur Palmerton; John Haar, New Oxford; George Himes, East Stroudsburg; Earl J. Keim, Steelton; William Kuty, Nazareth; Winfred Kocly, Schwenksville; Stanley Lojeski, 19, Doylestown; Elmer Marsh, Pottsville; William D.

Meunsch, Ottsville; James S.I Miller, Greensburg; Fred Orner, New Cumberland; Louis Rossa, Philadelphia; Joseph Stahley, Fairfield; Robert Umphred, Lati-mor Valley; gunshot wounds. Theodore Geist, Mayport, threatened with loss of an eve after a stray piece of shot struck his eye a companion shot at a pheasant. Paul Crossman, 39, and Max Pasky, both of Erie, wounded when caught in cross fire of fellow hunters. Jack Errett, Greensburg, loss of index finger in explosion of his own gun. Franklin Good, Calunga cut over right eye by plunger of his gun.

Edward Voltz, Philadelphia, wuuna oi leit eye-lid. Nancy Henry, 2, Jeannette, wounded in ankle by stray shot. VETERANS ARE GIVEN NEW RELIEF STATUS HARRISBURG, Nov. 1 (UP) War veterans on relief in Pennsylvania drawing federal war disability compensation are to be granted immediate exemptions of "at least $20" Public Assistance Secretary Arthur W. Howe said today.

Claiming it "would be unjust us take away from the injured veteran all that the government has given him as war disability compensation," Howe notified all county assistance boards abide by the special exemption luling. Heretofore disabled veterans epplying for relief were denied exemptions of any part of their income in keeping with the state assistance department policy holding that all income must be taken ed OF PROBE FCC WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UP) The federal communications commission today withheld renewal of the operating license of radio station WHOM, Jersey City, N. because of "a complaint concerning an alleged anti-Semitic, unAmer-ican broadcast." The commission granted the sta tion a temporary license for 90 days, instead of the ordinary six months license, pending further investigation of the broadcast, made on Sept. 18 by au organization designated as "II Gride Delia Stirpe." Two commissioners voted to renew the license on the grounds that the commission not have sufficient facts before it at this time to set the renewal of license for a hearing." They said, however, they wished an investigation of the broadcast continued.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UP) An employe responsible for the supervision of a radio script that allegedly contained anti-Semitic utterances has been suspended by Siaton YHOM, Jersey City, it was announced today. Simultaneously Joseph Lang, part owi.rer and managing director of the station, issued a reply to charges which were brought before the federal communications commission. "It is not logical to assume," Lang said, "that this station, in view of its large listening audience of Jews, would coutenance anti-Semitic propaganda. "I am a Jew myself and always have cooperated with all Jewish croUDS in everv wav nossible.

ThP station has made generous contributions of time on the air to many Jewish organizations." Dr. Edward M. Cowell of Athens, serving a two to five years sentence in the Eastern penitentiary on a morals charge, was denied clemency by the state pardon board today, according to a United Press dispatch. Harry L. Winner, serving three and a half to seven years for per jury as the result of false testimony given during his trial on charges of burglarizing SS.

Peter and Paul church in Towanda, also was denied clemency. He also was sentenced one and a half to three years for possession of burglary tools. Modern scientific research indicates that long life is principally hereditary, though factors of environment and habits also are COWELL DENIED PAROL A NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (AP) An accusation that the German espionage trial now proceeding in federal court was the result of a "frame-up" was made today by George C. Dix, counsel for Frau- lein Johanna Hofmann, one of the three persons on trial.

I charge that there was a frame-up and on the part of the government in this case, said Dix, turning angrily to Judge John Knox when the government attorneys objected to his cross-examining Reed Vetterli, former special agent of the federal bureau of investigation in New York. The ptosecution contended that Vetterli's testimony, which dealt with a statement signed by Otto Hermann Voss, another defendant, did not affect Dix' client. Dix, in his opening statement at the start of the trial, asserted that Fraulein Hofmann was "framed" by Leon G. Turrou, former FBI agent who was in charge of the espionage investigation. Judge Knox permitted Dix to cross-examine Vetterli, but sustained an objection when the at torney Vetterli to describe the circumstances of Turrou's resignation after the grand jury returned the espionage indictments.

Voss' statement, read into the record yesterday over the objection of his counsel which charged it was obtained under duress, quoted him as saying he gave secret information about U. S. military planes to German agents, "for Germany and not for money." EMPORIUM, Nov. 1 (UP) An officer of Civilian Conservation Camp 132, seven of whose members died while fighting a treacherous forest fire near here 13 days ago, told a coroner's jury today that he knew of no fire regulations in the camp. The officer, Lieut.

Radman Haynes, said that "as far as I know," there were no rules concerning fires in the camp, situated six miles southeast of Emporium. A group of CCC enrolles sat in the courtroom here as Lieut. Haynes, one of the officers in charge of the camp at the time of the fire, testified. It was not indicated whether any of the boys would be called to testify. Another witness was Earl Gotez, a project supervisor, who told of training given the camn member by the state forestry CHARGES CCC CAMP HAD NO FIR II POLICE PROBE NEW YORK, Nov.

1 (AP) Identified by a fellow policeman as the man who removed records of 7,000 arrests from Brooklyn police headquarters, Police Lieutenant Cuthbert J. Behan was held in jail today pending his appearance before an extraordinary grand jury to be impaneled November 17. Magistrate Matthew J. Troy refused a request by Behan's counsel to reduce bail from $25,000 to $15,000 after special prosecutor John Harlan Amen objected. Amen, who is heading the broad inquiry into Brooklyn law enforcement agencies authorized by Gov.

Lehman, opposed Behan's release on the grounds that it might invite strong pressure 'from others who might be in volved." Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine has charged that the records were taken in an attempt to hide evidence of a bail bond racket. Investigators are piecing the missing records together from data obtained from other sources. ALONG BORDER DIE WARSAW, Nov. 1 (UP) The Jewish relief committee asserted today that four persons had died and three had gone insane among 5,000 Polish Jews held along the Polish-German frontier.

The committee said that the Jews were being held without shelter. They had been taken to the frontier from the Interior of Germany, awaiting depotration to Poland due to a dispute regarding Poland's new citizenship laws. The Polish and German govern ments in exchanges yesterday pre pared the groundwork for business negotiations on the Polish citizenship laws. The German embassy here the preliminary work for the German government. It was believed here that actual negotiations would be started at Berlin tomorrow.

NO WORKERS; END WPA EMPORIUM, Nov. 1 (AP) This town had to suspend its WPA street project because, Borough Secretary C. Casperson said, there were no WPA workers Casperson said improved business and industrial activity had left the county without unemployed labor ei'S. L0WE1G OF CO CI JEWS consideration in computing re- isisted the insurgents made no ad-lef grants to unemployed, Howe vance Vifter their surprise attack explained. ft.